Rachel and Phong; A March Wedding

Rachel and Phong were married back on March 20, 2011 at the Baughman Center and had their reception at the Best Western Gateway Grand. I love Rachel's bouquet, which was made up of white calla lillies with red roses inside. The bouquet was accented with some silver as well.
Her bridesmaids bouquets, which are also shown below, were made up of hand-tied roses. I'm loving all the red--so beautiful!



At their reception, Rachel and Phong's centerpieces were made up of three cylinder vases filled with floating red tulips, red orchids and red roses. I love the variety each vase brings to the table. Did you know these vases are available for rental? Contact us for more information!


Our friends at Platinum Digital Video also posted a blog about Rachel and Phong's Wedding! You can see it by and watch a video teaser by clicking here!! They posted this beautiful photo collage of the wedding and reception and we had to share it with you!

Photo posted on Platinum Digital Video's blog

Congratulations Rachel and Phong! We wish you a lifetime of love and happiness. Thank you for letting The Plant Shoppe be part of your special day!


Ceremony: The Baughman Center
Reception: The Best Western Gateway Grand
Florist: The Plant Shoppe
Cake: The Flour Pot
Videographer: Platinum Digital Video

Florida Goal-Liners 31st Birthday

Last week the Florida Goal-Liners celebrated their 31st birthday at the Best Western Gateway Grand. The Florida Goal-Liners is an organization that promotes and supports the University of Florida Intercollegiate Football Program and the University of Florida Fightin' Gator Football team. You might remember a few weeks ago, we featured a post about their annual fashion show.

The Florida Goal-Liners were started back in 1979, and to help celebrate their birthday, Ward Pell, one of the founding birth mothers attended the celebration along with eight other original members. Ward Pell first came to UF with her husband, Charley Pell.

To celebrate the event The Plant Shoppe provided centerpieces and 80's styled corsages. The corsages pictured below are made up of orange carnations, blue curling ribbon, and accented with gold footballs.



The centerpieces were made up of a floating orange gerbera Daisy in a lotus bowl, accented with blue marbles.




And finally, pictured below is Ward Pell, founding birth mother, wearing one of our corsages.



To find out more about the Florida Goal-Liners, click here. Congratulations, Florida Goal-Liners on 31 years, we wish you many, many more.

Location: Best Western Gateway Grand
Flowers: The Plant Shoppe

Katrina & Aaron

Katrina & Aaron surrounded themselves with great friends & family when they were wed on Saturday. Red & white were the colors of the day. Katrina carried a bouquet of red roses and her bridesmaids carried white roses. Here are the bouquets right before delivering them. The centerpieces were red & white with hydrangea, roses, spray roses, cushion mums, alstromeria, limonium, and assorted greenery.
The guests were treated to a candy bar for their favors.
Best Wishes for a wonderful life together.

Ceremony: The Family Church
Reception: Best Western Gateway Grand
Photographer: K-Gallery
Florist: Us
Cake: Cake Classics
Chair Covers: Fancy That


Ceremony Coordinator: A'vie

Catherine & Pro

Catherine & Pro were married on a gorgeous January day. I thought I would share with you the fabulous pictures that Dove Photography provided me of the day. Colors were important to Catherine, not specific flowers. She gave me the freedom to create beautiful flowers for her, as long as they were the right color. After meeting with her and Jessica at A'vie, and finding out the colors, and the contemporary - tropical feel she wanted to create I come up with some great ideas for her. Her bouquet was made of blue hydrangea, brown hypericum berries, white roses, trachelium, and green cymbidium orchids. Here you will see her surrounded by all the bouquets, hers and the bridemaids.
For the guy's bout we used green dendrobium orchids, with blue delphenium, and a lttle beading to pull all the colors together.
We did a few different styles of centerpieces, and I think this picture of one of the designs is great. It is a large cylinder vase, with curly willow & floating cymbidium orchids.

Thanks Christine at Dove Photography for providing me wih some great images.

Ceremony: United Church of Gainesville
Reception: Best Western Gateway Grand
Photographer: Dove Photography
Florist: Us
Caterer: Best Western Gateway Grand
Cake: KB Kakes
Planner:A'vie